you don't have a chance

i love this:

do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. [NIV]
don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut. [the message remix]
[matthew 10.34]

Jesus was INTENSE. He didn't come to give us this really cushy, comfortable life. He didn't come so we'd have everything we've ever wanted or thought we needed. He wasn't here to throw us a party. God didn't wrap Himself up in flesh and blood and leave the most wonderful, beautiful, incomparable experience of Heaven to come down to a disease-ridden, poverty-stricken hell like this for fun. a king doesn't leave his warm, comfy throne to visit the peasants without a purpose.
JESUS CAME TO FIGHT.
He came with a sword to cut. to fight away sin and evil and temptation. He left the highest seat to come down and fight for us and with us. He was intense and ready and He died on the battlefield, but He gave us a start. and now it's our turn to continue fighting. He had to come to us to show us what we were missing. He had to come to us to show us how to fix it and how to do things right. He became the law in human form to be an example for us. He took every single one of our burdens on Himself and suffered separation from the Father for us.

i love this. i love the Bible. and i love Jesus and that He makes the Bible intense. i love that the Bible isn't a kid's story. tell a child that Jesus came to the earth to DESTROY THINGS. i mean, boys might think that's cool...but you tell them that their Savior is really this cutthroat warrior who came to prove something. and He did. it's awesome.